The United States Constitution now delivers 404

Donald Trump took office on Monday as the 47th president of the United States, quickly issuing a series of patently illegal executive orders and making changes to social media accounts and websites controlled by the president’s office. Arguably one of the most shocking changes to the president’s online footprint concerns the US Constitution. Anyone who now searches for the Constitution on Google and follows the link to the White House website currently sees a Error 404.

Before January 20, 2025, the White House website displayed a page describing the Constitution and the history of how it was ratified. The website, as it appeared during Joe Biden’s presidency, is available on the Internet Archive Wayback machine It displays an About the White House page with four pages that visitors can navigate to, including “Presidents,” “First Families,” “Territories,” and “Our Government.”

Click on Our government It brought visitors to a page explaining the American system, including the judiciary, executive, and legislative branches “whose powers are vested in the U.S. Constitution.” This mention of the US Constitution included a hyperlink that takes people to the page that now displays a 404 error. The disappearance of the page went viral on Instagram, thanks to the liberal influencer Mercedes Chandlerand it should be noted that the text throughout these pages was nonpartisan and reads like something you might encounter in a middle school government textbook.

“Can someone from the MAGA movement explain to me how the party that claims to care about the Constitution removed it from the website?” Chandler said. “Is it because you don’t want us to know what’s in it?”

Chandler went on to speculate that the matter may be related to the fact that Trump issued an executive order on Monday not to recognize the concept of birthright citizenship in the United States, which the 14th Amendment has guaranteed since its ratification in the 19th century. After the civil war. Attorneys General from 18 states The federal government was sued Tuesday over the executive order, citing its apparent violation of the Constitution.

Obviously, any kind of major changes to a website can break all kinds of links. Perhaps the Trump White House has put information about the Constitution elsewhere? If so, we can’t find it.

Scrolling down to the bottom of the Whitehouse.gov home page brings up a section titled “About the White House.” There are three main buttons to click there, including the White House, Camp David, and Air Force One. But clicking on any of those pages doesn’t show you any information about the US Constitution. In fact, we couldn’t find a single mention of the word “Constitution” anywhere on the White House website outside of the news releases, which is odd.

The Trump administration made other changes to the federally controlled sites on Monday, including deleting the site reproductive rights.gov. The site was launched in 2022 by the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Biden to provide Americans with information about birth control and abortion after the US Supreme Court struck down abortion rights at the federal level in a landmark case called Dobbs v. Women’s Health Jackson. .

The reproductive rights website told Americans that employers are required to cover access to health care services like birth control under the Affordable Care Act, a fact that is currently being challenged in court. Reproducerrights.gov is also archived by Wayback machine.

Other social media accounts controlled by the White House also made the switch around midday on Monday, including X, Facebook, and even lesser-known sites like Flickr. And while few Americans check Flickr these days (and the Trump team hasn’t posted any new photos there yet), the lesser-known sites can actually be an interesting place where news accidentally spreads. For example, we wouldn’t have this photo of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shaking Donald Trump’s hand Fall 2019If only the White House photographer hadn’t posted it on Flickr.

Stay safe out there, guys. You will get it Much worse For the Americans before things get better.